Hello, and welcome to my garden!
I'm finally getting around to writing my end of August garden journal for my community garden plots. Of course, we're already a week into September now, so this report is a bit late. A lack of ambition and motivation on my part due to the way the change of seasons affected my mental state. I think I'm getting adjusted to the change now, at least to some extent.
My community garden plots have done pretty well this year. All of the crops that were planted there have produced well, so I'm happy with the results. I went up to the garden yesterday and took these pictures, it was an overcast cool day, so the light was decent, but not too bright for good pictures.
Here's an overall look at the garden plots from fence gate.
The potatoes are done growing and have mostly died back now. I'll start digging them soon, when the weather cooperates with a dry day. I dug up one plant of the Adirondack Blue potatoes and got a nice bunch of potatoes. If I get those results from most of the plants, I'm going to have a lot of potatoes from this harvest.
My Delecata squash plants are still alive and growing, and the squash are continuing to develop nicely.
Here's a closer look at a couple of the squash on the vines.
The sweet corn has all been picked now, and the bean plants have been pulled to further dry the pods. It's better to dry the plants and pods someplace out of the weather so the pods don't get moldy from the plants laying over onto the ground.
This picture is from a week ago before the bean plants were pulled. The plants were starting to die back and the bean pods were turning yellow and drying out.
This is the corn stalks as of yesterday, with the bean plants removed. I will leave the stalks standing until I'm ready to start shredding them after all the potatoes have been dug.
This is the pumpkin plants that were planted at the end of the rows of corn. These are the smaller pie pumpkins. They seem to have done well this year. Our recent wet weather seems to have caused some powder mildew to start on these plants.
Apparently, one of the pumpkin plants that were planted in that area was actually an acorn squash plant.
My pumpkin plants in the adjacent plot got off to a slow start due to transplant shock, but they seem to be doing fairly well now. I think I have 5 pumpkins in this patch, although it can be a bit hard to tell when they're still small and green. There may be one hiding that I haven't found yet.
The plant on this end of the little patch is supposed to be a white pumpkin, according to the person who gave me the plant. The small pumpkin certainly isn't dark green like the other pumpkins.
That's all the pictures I have for this post, I hope you found it interesting!
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